Stephen Schloneger

United Press International · October 6, 1961

Wheaton, Ill: 13-yr-old Stephen Schloneger, being led by Police, after admitting the strangulation slaying of little Yvonne Elliott here 10/6. Du Page County Sheriff Lawrence Springborn said according to Schloneger he killed the 7-yr-old girl for a thrill, suffocating her by shoving her face in a puddle of water when she resisted his sexual advances. The girl was found by her father 10/4 in a vacant lot on the northern outskirts of Elmhurst, Ill.